Robert Newman

Total Eclipse of Descartes

In a world gone crazy, can philosophy help? This sparklingly brilliant new show tries to give you the answer.

He is the funniest comedian I have ever seen…A passionate, chaotically brilliant comedian. - Sunday Times

Rob Newman (stand up legend, best-selling novelist, Winner BBC Audio Drama Award 2017) attempts to piece together a philosophy for our troubled times by sifting through 3000 years of thought: from Pythagoras to Artificial Intelligence by way of Pavlov’s dogs, Jane Goodall’s chimpanzees and Frankie Howerd’s trousers.